William Gibson will read on Sunday, August 19, at 6:00 pm at the Brattle Theatre. The event is sponsored by Harvard Book Store, and are on sale at the book store now for $5.

William Gibson, Cyberspace's Big Daddy, has spawned a new book. Spook Country has already earned a rave review from BoingBoing. Cory Doctorow sums up the book as a "story of a cadre of spies, artists, and losers who collide in the roiling turmoil of twenty-first century, destabilized geopolitics." That sounds a hell of a lot like real life right now – and it is. The book is set in 2006.

Gibson says Spook Country is a satire of the world's current freaked-out state. He brings back Hubertus Bigend from Pattern Recognition, and this time Bigend is involved with the soon-to-be-published (or not) Node magazine. Throw in ninjas and pop stars, and you have a hit.

We're running this announcement a little earlier than usual because we're betting tickets for the Gibson reading will go quickly.

Book cover image from Amazon.